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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brook-Hitching

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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brook-Hitching

8vo. pp. 256. profusely illustrated. bibliography. index. boards. dw. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [2018].

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ISBN-10: 1452168407 / ISBN-13: 9781452168401

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Discover the mysteries within ancient maps - Where exploration and mythology meet

This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true.

Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies.

Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet.

Cartography's greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms.